1. Pretty sure we can put a fork in Humphrey's Executor. 2. This isn't particularly unique to Trump (it's been a FedSoc project for ages), though his propensity to fire people was a happy coincidence for the effort.

Make them ride circuit. Cancel a Supreme Court term. No more clerks. And strip jurisdiction.

Why use the shadow docket to do this? Because they can

I wish I was capable of having the kind of joy that a middle schooler does when they realize they don't have school tomorrow

Here are some ungated excerpts from the forthcoming book about the historical origins of US voluntary migration & citizenship policies/laws. On birthright citizenship, here's an oped about the motivations: 1/

For those interested in a demolition of the unitary executive 'theorists' handling of the vesting clause, check out @jedshug.bsky.social's 2022 Stanford Law Review article "Vesting" www.stanfordlawreview.org/print/articl...

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

Starting with today's post on @nathankhensley.bsky.social's Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (2025), which reframes classic authors & texts to help us think about how we can find critical optimism in this very dark time. americanstudier.blogspot.com/2025/09/sept...

Very American to frame this as the baseball field being the problem neighbor.

Is The Rapture a core function?

It is like Clear and Present Danger except Jack Ryan is the bad guy

Can't believe the Arsenal home faithful stand for this utter dreck. 4 centre backs, 3 defensive midfielders, no Eze, no Martinelli. Imagine if Iraola had this squad of players.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

There is a book to be written about the American right’s tactic of appropriating historical figures by silencing their politics

So far the “stay humble derby” is largely a non-event because the home side is making it one. Staggered at how defensively Arsenal has set up here

In fairness to Reinildo he got the ball. Two actually

Every Bournemouth match should have the aerial tactical cam that used to be an option for the old champions league broadcasts. Iraola is always up to something

Phew maybe now he can step in to prevent the Ryder Cup from getting out of hand

Danilo Cataldi almost hits a Puskas nominee to get a draw for Lazio in the Rome derby but for the iron unkind

Very sad news about Matt Beard.

If you had Sir Alex toasting bovril with Sam Allardyce on your bingo card you are in luck

If United manage to screw this up, ______ (fill the blank)

“Chat shit get banged” J. Vardy

Blue and white shite

“The most dangerous scoreline in football”

Next week’s teaching/reading/research. Serious.

Learn something new everyday #buhbye

really enjoying watching these Barca players discovering the unique talents of Joelinton

Plus ça change, plus c'est we’re screwed

In a March 2024 concurrence, Justice Barrett argued that temporary “administrative” stays should be relatively rare and of exceptionally limited duration. As today’s bonus “One First” notes, in the 18 months since, they’ve only proliferated at #SCOTUS, and lower courts have continued to abuse them:

The incomparable @knoxharrington.bsky.social on the importance of the proposed Hillsborough Law: "What it is proposing is the most profound cultural shift for the British State since the Good Friday Agreement." www.theanfieldwrap.com/2025/09/hill...

Love these newsletter style posts from @lpeblog.bsky.social @lpeproject.bsky.social, this one highlighting posts about the intersection of criminal law with political economy, e.g. carceral state lpeproject.org/blog/from-th...

Is being recognized more and more

Football miracles, week after week 😉

Atleti's goal shouldn't have stood but they played very well from 10-45. Gakpo and Isak struggled defensively but the Reds in attack were outstanding.

Stay classy San Diego

'Donald Trump is practicing policy the right way.' -Ezra Klein, probably

This new article by Kyle Melles is a great example of how to write the legal history of the national security state. Highly recommended.

🚨 New Law & History Review article alert: Kyle Melles, "Kenya's Emergency Powers: Legal Continuities in the Post-Colonial State, 1959–1969" Open Access ✅ doi.org/10.1017/S073...

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to BlueSky.

Congratulations to Aziz Rana on winning the Annual Book Award of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History for his book The Constitutional Bind! You can check out the book at booth #301 or our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAPSA #APSA2025

Attn #legalhistory folks: it is publication day for Kevin Arlyck's anxiously awaited book, The Nation at Sea: The Federal Courts and American Sovereignty, 1789-1825 (Cambridge, 2025)! I was privileged to able to read early drafts and this is a field-changing book! www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...

Charlie Kirk’s killing has proved that Bari Weiss was right all along. by Bari Weiss

Time to retire the “warm bucket of spit” line

Really nice that the peno came from that grok Hanibal, specialist in kicking out players

Arne Slot’s tricky Reds